Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.